Operation Gladio Is NATO's False Flag Smoking Gun

Mae Brussell - The CIA's Long Historical Partnership With Terrorists

Mae Brussell's speciality is documenting the CIA/JFK Kennedy assassination and the people around that event who continued to work in political assassinations and covert operations to  destabilize countries they wanted to economically rape. Her work is solid, authoritive, fast and dense. You need a pencil if you are researching but her work is very effective if you just need persuading that the Bush dynasty dominated CIA is the most effective organized crime entity of all time.

MEK Terrorists Being Trained On US Soil

Iranian terror group MEK are lobbying US politicians with tens of thousands of dollars and persuading Americans with Israeli funded advertising to take MEK off the terrorist list as they are against the current Iranian leadership. This is a really bad, short term thinking idea.

U.S. Training of MEK Terrorists At Site 12 In Nevada Desert

The Mujahideen e-Khalq (MEK) are the terrorists murdering Iranian scientists. How do you feel about that? Is it more important than the VP pick obsessing the United States of Triviality?

Journalist Seymour Hersh has revealed that the Bush administration secretly trained an Iranian opposition group on the State Department's list of foreign terrorists. Hersh reports the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command trained operatives from Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK, at a secret site in Nevada beginning in 2005. According to Hersh, MEK members were trained in intercepting communications, cryptography, weaponry and small unit tactics at the Nevada site up until President Obama took office. The MEK has been listed as a foreign terrorist groups since 1997 and is linked to a number of attacks, spanning from the murders of six U.S. citizens in the 1970s to the recent wave of assassinations targeting Iranian nuclear scientists. Hersh also discusses the role of Israeli intelligence and notes the Obama administration knew about the training, "because they have access to what was going on in the previous administration in this area, in terms of the MEK, in terms of operations inside Iran." His new report for The New Yorker blog, "Our Men in Iran?," comes as nuclear talks are set to resume this week between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/04/mek.html

http://www.democracynow.org

Why Is The United States Funding & Training MEK Terrorists To Destabilize Iran?

This is a rip roaring heated discussion between three people about the MEK or Mujahedin-e Khalq. Glen Greenwald and the former State Dept guy make the guy from the Washington Institute look like the terror revisionist he is but in the end I say the easiest way to know if they're good or not is to see who supports MEK: Tom Ridge, Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton. These are the most venal money grubbing political snakes in the United States. It's not hard.

Since its creation in 1997 the US list of terrorist organisations has included the Iranian group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).

"It is a criminal offence, a felony to have any transactions with this group, let alone to provide material support… if you coordinate advocacy on behalf of that group. There are lots of Muslims sitting in prison…for doing far less..." - Glenn Greenwald, a journalist and former civil rights lawyer

The group's supporters say they are Iran's democratic opposition, working for a nuclear-free Iran. But critics argue they have a violent history that dates back to the overthrow of Shah Reza Pahlavi.

Most members of the group now live in an Iraqi refugee camp.

Unlike other designated terrorist organisations, the MEK enjoys the support of many high-profile US officials, including Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor; John Bolton, the former US envoy to the UN; James Woolsey, the former CIA director; and Tom Ridge, the former secretary of Homeland Security.

They have travelled around the US and the world, giving speeches advocating the MEK's removal from the US terrorist list.

Below are excerpts from some of the speeches:

Tom Ridge: "They do not belong on the list. They're not a terrorist organisation. Take them off the list".

John Bolton: "I don't think that organisations should be put on that list for political purposes as the MEK was in 1997. I don't think organisations should be kept on that list as the MEK was in 2008 for political purposes. I think the facts should be allowed to fall where they may."

Rudy Giuliani: "We will stand up for them, we are with them as if we are in that camp with them today. Whatever they do to them, they do to us."

"The treasury should get to the bottom of finding out where the money is coming from. If this is being done in coordination with the MEK, a crime has been committed then somebody ought to be convicted...but I don't know if that's the case [here]." - Patrick Clawson, Iran analyst at the Washington Institute

Now the US Treasury Department has launched an inquiry into whether these officials are being paid by the MEK to speak, which would be a violation of US laws.

So why are so many high-ranking US politicians and former officials openly backing the MEK despite their designation as a terrorist group?

Is it even legal? And why has it taken so long for the US government to ask the same question?

Joining Inside Story Americas with Lisa Fletcher to discuss this are: Glenn Greenwald, a journalist and former civil rights lawyer; Reza Marashi, the research director at the National Iranian American Council; and Patrick Clawson, the research director and Iran analyst at the Washington Institute.

"When the MEK was put on the terrorist list in 1997 by Martin Indyk he said in his book 'we decided to put the MEK as a designated terrorist organisation not because they were pro- or anti-American but because they were [one] without a shadow of a doubt...'" Reza Marashi, research director at the National Iranian American Council

Who is MEK?

• Founded in 1965 by Islamic-Marxist students, the group helped to overthrow the Iranian government in 1979, prompting a clampdown following the revolution.
• Many members are refugees in both Iraq and France.
• Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader, used them for attacks against Iran and the Kurds.
• The US disarmed them following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which the MEK agreed to in exchange for protection.
• The US turned over MEK refugees to the Iraqi government in 2011.
• The group's leaders continue to live and operate in France.

Al Qaeda Created by @CIA

Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker laid it all out nice and straight for us back in 2007. You just can't go wrong using Iran-Contra as a research term. It throws up gems like this all the time.

Homeland Security Spokesperson Doesn't Know What The Rest Of The World Knows

A raft of callers into C-SPAN point out that the underwear bomber was led through immigration and ushered onto the plane by an unknown gentleman in a brown suit. A classic example of a so called expert looking foolish. It appears he's unable to do even the minimal amount of fact checking such as this crucial report by Intel Hub.

How The US Army Ticks - The Murder Of Pat Tillman By His Fellow Rangers

The poor regard I have for sports fans ignoring real issues in society that I wrote about got me wondering again why the US military or specifically the Army Rangers shot football hero Pat Tillman. My memory from those days of blindly consuming mass media told me he was resented by his unit because he was a football star.  

Not so. 

Here's his brother quietly explaining he was murdered by fellow Army Rangers so as to take the American eye off the embarrassing story of Abu Ghraib. It's so miserable that Pat Tillman gave up his football career and was taken down as a gladiator to divert the attention of the masses. Bread and circuses the Romans called it. Panem et circences in Latin, and it's as old as the hills.

Tap Dancing on 911

The awful part of changing my mind is the sneaky feeling that most people who remain silent on the subject couldn't care less as long as the economic mirage continues to grow. Hat's off to those who were sacrificed in New York and deep regrets over the million or so that lost their lives in the Mickey Mouse perpetual war on terror. I am so sorry.


The video is a way of coping with the insanity. Enlightenment is a burden not a pleasure.

Still Got Questions About The London 7/7 Bombings?

Nobody believes the official story for the 911 Twin towers bombing. Or rather the only people who do, haven't done their homework. Something I've encountered time and again, is that its not the evidence that is the chief battle taking place here. 

It's the collapse of trust in institutions that we the sheep previously thought were there to protect them. I can share it's not a nice process to go through and my own awakening took quite some time with repeated denial on my own part. Even when I realised it was all Mickey Mouse society engineering, I still didn't want to believe the highest levels of society have an agenda that is about engineering conflict. 


Because divide and rule is how you manage large groups. I promise you my own position on these matters emerged chunk by bloody chunk of bloodied disappointment and took years. Don't do it the hard the way.

The watershed point with the 7/7 bombings for me was when learning that a 'terrorist test run' on the same day as the real bombings took place and that this was the same as the 9/11 'training exercises/war game drills' that led to the fighter bombers not scrambling on time to shoot the 'hijacked' airliners down. One thing I've learned from JFK's assasination and these events is that you can't have too much misleading and confusing events to muddy the waters. As the author of the Black Swan, Nasim Nicholas Taleb often quotes. 

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

This Red Ice Radio interview with John Anthony Hill, producer of the 7/7 Ripple Effect is a must listen and I put it to you that some people in the intelligence services made enough deliberate mistakes and signals to make the public suspicious and indeed from what I can figure out of the British, you are suspicious. You just don't want to consider the implications of the fox being in the chicken coop. Life's hard enough without denial. Get over it, man up and do some homework, starting with this information.

War & Technology Porn

I think Wired do an enthusiastic yet unaspirational job of technology reporting. Unexpectedly, the last four weeks in a row , I've been blown away by The New Scientist's front cover stories telling a different narrative that is more faithful to the true scientist which is one of humility. How much we don't know, what science can't tell us, what we are unlikely to ever discover and this weeks story on the multiverse which I think is one of the few times we can use the word profound without risk of hyperbole. 

Many people are overwhelmed by ideas of an infinite number of universes, and prefer not to think about science's claim of, for example, the existence of another universe where one is a double hand amputee victim, and thus unable to search the internet using a traditional mouse as you are now invariably doing. 

The idea of this specific timeline uncoiling among an infinite number of potential and actual timelines is only cosmically coherent if the notion of free will and decision making is the precursor to a timeline branching off into another electromagnetic or holographic universe. 

Put another way you're living in Grand Theft Auto Gaza-Strip and the video effects are very realistic.

You can thank the creator for that or if that's a problem, thank yourself by learning a little about Pandeism whereby we are co-creating reality in a momentarily disappearing collision of the past and the future, that we call the present.

I find it revolting to see Science's inability to pause and reflect, and do a little balancing of the books. A quick tally of the numbers of hungry, sick and impoverished people on the planet over the course of the scientific century tells me the Higgs boson will be understood more quickly than how to feed people. 

That's a shit stain on 20th century materialist science's pretension of progress, and no better dramatised by people who think discussing their latest oblong of I ME MINE Appleness is any more interesting to me than  being collared by a watch lover and given a lecture as to it's features and benefits. I just don't care about your tech. It's an illusion that will only hit home when the penny drops that technology can't be eaten but rice can. Taking an interest in where suffering can be alleviated is human. Not gazing into a screen of distraction.

Recently I've started taking offence to the war-porn blogs that are populated by psychopathy. These writers and commenters are jerking off to killing machines yet as soon as I point out that those assault vehicles/drones helicopters/iphone geotrackers would do a terrific job of picking off the residents of Boca Ratone or Key West the hypocritical rage and offence is extraordinary. I got banned yesterday from commenting on one war porn blog by Raymond Pritchett of Information Dissemination. He wrote

@charlesfrith not funny. Joking about killing Americans is not acceptable behavior. You have been banned.

He deleted that tweet later, but I want to make it clear to him. I only use obvious satire about killing Americans, but the killing business you pimp off is larger than the next 17 countries in the world. It is paid for by impoverished but frugal Asian savers through loans that are extorted with obvious military threats of retaliation and lastly but most importantly the U.S. weapons you stroke in your mind, kill real and innocent people day in and day out.

I ask you Raymond Pratchett

Is it really my satire that is unacceptable or is it the charade of goodness you call the American Way? The reality you are really jerking off to every time your priapism for war porn takes over you, and your readers, was in the Huffington Post yesterday (picture below), and I left a much more sober comment there because unlike you, I honour the soldiers by thinking about ways to keep them out of war. Not fetishising their killing.

I Am Russian Spy

Victor Suvorov is a former spy who now lives in the UK. Here is the fourth part of a presentation to the U.S. Naval academy. It's an amazing smoke filmed rooms portrayal of Stalin's mind but right at the end (and that's why I start on the last part) he lays it square to the U.S.

He doesn't say it directly but like I've been saying to the West for years now indirect communication is an art form and this is an unambiguous message to the alert.

Pink Terror Hawking

I think this is exceptional. Via Mike

Timo Veikkola - Nokia

Kjirstin

I went to PSFK's conference yesterday in London. It was billed as a morning of trends and ideas, and an afternoon of new marketing. The whole day was hugely enjoyable and I'm not just saying that because PSFK put me up at the Metropolitan and paid for those Cannes tickets I was moaning about. I made some notes of the thoughts and ideas that made sense to me or even didn't make sense but somehow needed to be taken down. Here they are.

The first speaker was Timo Veikkola (picture by lynetter) who is a future specialist at Nokia (what a great job), and seems to have a similarly exciting position as Jan Chipchase. Timo is one of those social science types that the Scandinavian countries excel at integrating into big business much more sympathetically than many U.S. corporations. His goal is to make communications as natural as possible while picking up on future trends to integrate into Nokia products and usability. Timo pointed out that there is no other stimulant like travel and I'd fully agree with him there. Anything else is just Disneyland really. Timo is currently planning for the year 2010, and reminded us of the question "can the human mind master what the human mind has made?" (Zygmnunt Bauman). For a Clinton Kid like me, the last 6 years have been quite depressing and Timo underlined how war is thematic for this decade despite the number of casualities at this moment in time. He talked how these visuals of the oxymoron 'war on terror' have started to seep into culture and may also explain why there is a considerable counter movement for the honest, fun and simple.

Many years ago I was in Vietnam and noticed that despite all the efforts of the mighty U.S. military machine it was Coca-Cola that had really won the war. One slide by Timo of a car covered in Arabic text reminded me that if we look at the population growth demographics for Islamic countries it shouldn't be too long before, along with India and China we should in the future begin to see more Arabic text creeping into our culture. I always find text fascinating and have even etched a few Khmer and Siamese tattoos on my body. I can think of nothing more exciting than nipping up to the Turk, Sri Lankan, Kurdish and Tamil supermarkets where I'm living and looking at 'foreign stuff'. Somehow Coconut Milk from Southern India is much more romantic and kosher than something packaged by one of the supermarkets. I am also quite frankly bored with all the web 2.0 cuddly logos sprouting, although I do realise that style is more important and useful than identity in this overloaded logo world.

Timo talked about how protest and political statement will likely be more present in design of the future and this was reinforced later by the sustainable design panel. I can certainly see a future where homogeneous brands, products and services are more likely to differentiate themselves by what they stand for - their values as it were. Timo also described that we seem to be living in almost biblical Revelations-like times with famine, pestilence, disease and floods from things like SARS, Hurricanes and Tsunamis, he then talked about the move from a celebrity culture to a knowledge culture which simply can't come soon enough for me.

Many moons ago on a hardcore right wing political chat channel that I liked to sharpen my teeth on I was arguing (or rather being shouted down) about the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of driving SUV's in a world with rapidly diminishing oil and young Americans and British people dying for it while serving in the armed forces in Iraq which everyone knows (except the oil addicts) was invaded for its oil reserves and the Green Zone that will administer it. The one weapon that unsettled the frothy mouthed right-wing-nuts in the debate (95% of the channel) was the question, would Jesus drive an SUV? The unholy alliance between the Neo-Conservatives and the Christian fundamentalists is always unsettled by this simple question and mark my words for the future of sustainable consumption, religion and culture will be huge factors in the war of ideas. Ask yourself if Jesus would purchase an SUV, because it looks to me from the picture above that Mohamed wouldn't have minded a Big Mac. That is every reason for being optimistic about the future...... which according to Arthur C Clarke is going to be 'utterly fantastic'.